Ep 27: Do Rooming Houses Make Good Property Developments? – with Bob Andersen

There are so many options for the types of property developments you can do, and one of them is rooming houses or “rent by room” properties.

But are they worth looking into and investing in?

Today, Bob and I talk about whether or not rooming houses actually make good property developments or not, what they really are technically, who they’re for, how to get started, and more! This is a particularly interesting episode so tune in now!

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Episode Highlights:

1. Defining “rent by room” [02:56]
2. Rules for rooming houses vary from state to state [03:51]
3. Rooming houses are not the “modern version” of a boarding house [06:01]
4. You can convert a normal house to a rooming house, but should you? [09:23]
5. The importance of having a specialist manager [15:10]
6. Spending more on a specialist manager will add more value to rooming houses [16:12]
7. Flow of money from a good rooming house build [20:18]
8. Do banks like rooming houses as investments? [22:07]
9. Bob’s student accommodation development story [23:25]
10. One big mistake a new developer made on his first commercial project [28:11]
11. One-room owners in a rooming house [30:07]
12. You NEED an experienced manager & the right team for the project to work [31:02]

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